Yesterday thought of an idea in order to "promote" programming in our community. As some of you might know, I do XML and even though sometimes it can get boring or drives you crazy, the result after programming can be quite rewarding. So what's my idea?

Well, what I thought of was to do sort of a weekly challenge for those who have absolutely no experience yet they wish give this kind of programming a try. I will provide help during the week for the challenge that I pose as well as links to some useful sites that made me relatively fluent in the language.

Obviously, your interest is important to drive this idea and indeed that is why I posted today in order to give people the chance to see the post till next week.

If there is enough interest, I will pose an easy challenge next monday for the whole week and I'll give help to all those who'll show interest.

Programming will be done in FS9, however, FSX accepts that format and there are indeed good tutorials around.

Hello people, first of all, thanks for joining this, it shows that people want to contribute, in a way or another. Secondly, I was thinking of starting from a very simple gauge. It will be showing the engine RPM. For this, you need to do 2 bmps. One will be the needle and the other will be the background. Some things I recommend are:

1) Get microsoft visual C++ 2010 express edition ! This is a good start, you can edit XML in it and will prove to be useful later on.
2) Visit the following sites:

Hi guys, I know that I will sound ridiculous about this but please - Bare with me. I got instantly busy and just can't keep with the gauges and this at the same time. I promise though, will return as soon as I have some time. If you are really interested and want to learn, follow the tutorials on the given site and I will surely be able to help anything you won't understand. Problem is that I can't organise this at the moment.